Rose Rimler

It's like a cutting board.

Yeah.

I mean, your instinct would be this would wreak havoc on your body, right?

Because it seems like you'd be missing out some very important vitamins, minerals, stuff like fiber.

If you get rid of all that from your diet, my question is, like, will you be okay?

You know, just basically, are these people okay?

Well, I talked to Karen Zinn about that.

She's a professor at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.

Karen, like us, has been hearing more and more about people going on the carnivore diet.

And she wanted to know, if you go full meat, what are you potentially missing?

So she and some colleagues analyzed the nutritional value of an all-meat diet.

Was there any glaring deficiency that could pop up?

We need vitamin C to make collagen.

And so without it, your skin and mucous membranes and blood vessels start to break down.

Yeah, so we're talking about scurvy here, right.

And your gums can bleed and it can get really serious.

People can die.

And that wasn't the only nutritional deficiency that Karen was worried about.

It looked like some other nutrients might be kind of low in this diet.

Phylate, potassium, where are these things?